Hacker News: guggle

New comment by guggle in "Microsoft Deprecates VBScript"

guggle — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 22:15:08 +0000

ON ERROR RESUME NEXT !

New comment by guggle in "I got robbed of my first kernel contribution"

guggle — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:24:36 +0000

That's what I do too. At the end of the day, all I want is for my patch to be included so I don't have the problem anymore. I code for a living and I don't have to sell myself to recruiters in my field. But I fully understand why one would want to be credited, and that's just fair.

New comment by guggle in "Web apps are better than no apps"

guggle — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:45:25 +0000

> I guess with newer apis such as the File System one Electron is slowly becoming unnecessary

Last time I tried, it was still a pain point. For one, the API felt... alien. Also, the performance was not good. I'm not sure why, maybe it's my Javascript-FU that's bad, but all in all I'd still use another language for this if possible.

New comment by guggle in "Show HN: I built a Python web framework"

guggle — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 01:56:41 +0000

Stuck for a while in python 2.x world with its "always backward compatible" pledge... then it lost attention I guess. Also, questionable technical choices. Now py 3.5+ compatible, but no compelling reason to use it.

New comment by guggle in "Show HN: I built a Python web framework"

guggle — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 01:46:11 +0000

Bottle was decent before Flask. Couldn't we use that instead ?

New comment by guggle in "Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator"

guggle — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:06:27 +0000

> my favorite after htmx

That's interesting. I discovered Unpoly after HTMX (which I like) and decided to stay with Unpoly for a few reasons. Do you think hypermedia libraries will converge or do you think there is space for different interpretations ?

New comment by guggle in "Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator"

guggle — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:51:58 +0000

> “I need to update other content on the screen. How do I do this?”

This is a complete non-issue in unpoly as you can have multiple targets:

    Read post

https://unpoly.com/targeting-fragments

HTMX gets a lot of attention, but I think it's not the best option in its field.

New comment by guggle in "Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2"

guggle — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 15:02:29 +0000

> we're in an season of backend development that favors separation (vs bundling) of concerns

I work in a small team (5 developers), on multiple projects that span from 3 months to 1 year of work. While I like some of Go qualities (like speed, types, low memory, easy deployment,...) it would be hard for me to introduce Go to the team. The thing is that with Django (or Laravel, or Rails, or any "opiniated" framework) I can point the team to a nice single documentation website and associated framework that covers probably 90 to 95% of our needs and gets us right into the business logic real fast. There's real value in framework integration for teams like us (and for this very reason, we don't use Flask either, way to much fiddling). Also, the feature set in these solutions, while maybe "out of season", is fine for most of our projects.

At this point, should I want to push Go to the team, I would have integrate libraries myself and document... so basically starting my own version of a "framework". Like you said, it's a sprawling project. But hey... isn't it how Django started ? Maybe one day...

Meanwhile, I'll stick to using Go in my personal projects, until I have a very clear picture of the ecosystem.

New comment by guggle in "Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2"

guggle — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:47:33 +0000

There are plenty of Flask equivalent in Go IMO. Django... not so much.

New comment by guggle in "Orb is a free and open source web desktop"

guggle — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:17:02 +0000

Where did I say it was you ?

New comment by guggle in "Orb is a free and open source web desktop"

guggle — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:33:34 +0000

Funny how some people have this mindset only about jquery and not unecessary fonts, icons, image backgrounds, etc.

New comment by guggle in "Orb is a free and open source web desktop"

guggle — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:14:17 +0000

I never undertood the fuss with bandwidth and jquery either... it's only 30k once behind mod_deflate. To put it in perspective, vue.global.js is 463k or 104k once gzipped.

There are many reason not to use Jquery for greenfield projects now, but bandwith is not one of them.

New comment by guggle in "Just normal web things"

guggle — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 02:50:17 +0000

gemtext ?

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/gemtext.gmi

New comment by guggle in "I'm betting on HTML"

guggle — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:20:20 +0000

There’s plenty of literature (and debate !) about mvc/mvt (and its numerous variants and interpretations) in the context of web apps. It’s interesting that you challenge the consensus though.

New comment by guggle in "Unicorn – A full-stack web framework for Django"

guggle — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 05:06:04 +0000

Also Gunicorn…

New comment by guggle in "Unicorn – A full-stack web framework for Django"

guggle — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 05:04:55 +0000

And https://unpoly.com/

New comment by guggle in "I'm betting on HTML"

guggle — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:53:25 +0000

I actually like htmx (I find Unpoly superior so that’s what I use, but it’s the same general idea) and the example given makes sense, but one should not extend locality of behaviour to the point of sprinkling SQL in templates. I don’t think that’s what the htmx folks had in mind in this essay either, their canonical example being the html/css/js trio. But hey… there’s no better experience than first-hand experience, you will find soon enough if it works for you.

New comment by guggle in "I'm betting on HTML"

guggle — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 06:47:24 +0000

I almost have ptsd from these dark days, I won’t go into details ;-) but there’s plenty of literature about separation of concerns. Having the templates doing the data access takes me back 20 years ago, but I can see why this idea comes back in a web component era.

New comment by guggle in "Transform your Android device into a Linux desktop"

guggle — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 12:31:53 +0000

Anyone tried to use a phone as a low power web server ?

New comment by guggle in "I'm betting on HTML"

guggle — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 07:38:19 +0000

I also like htmx. But one day someone pointed me to unpoly, which I find better. So I’ll spread the word here: https://unpoly.com/